Urocortin-deficient mice show hearing impairment and increased anxiety-like behavior

Nature Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 363-369

  Vetter, Douglas E ^a,d   Li, Chien ^a   Zhao, Lingyun ^a   Contarino, Angelo ^b   Liberman, M Charles ^c   Smith, George W ^a,e   Marchuk, Yelena ^a   Koob, George F ^b   Heinemann, Stephen F ^a   Vale, Wylie ^a   Lee, Kuo Fen ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; UROCORTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; INNER EAR; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; STRESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COCHLEA; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; EATING; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; STRESS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036699527     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng914     Document Type: Article

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